My second scip! Thanks to everyone who reviewed this, it's been a wild ride. I think I did it well, considering it's a keter-class humanoid with teleporting powers and a tragic backstory, and I'm super happy with the narrative behind it.

Also, the title is a Sherlock Holmes reference! It's irrelevant to the SCP itself, but I couldn't resist.

The interview log was touching. I didn't understand the significance of the dead staff members until I scrolled back up and noticed the strike-through on "at least 40 cm" — that detail would have sealed the upvote, if I hadn't been going to already.

Basically, I felt that an entity with entirely predictable behaviour that couldn't be fully, permanently contained would be Euclid, as long as it's harmless. Once it becomes apparent that the behaviour can diverge massively, and that the entity can easily harm or kill a number of people just by being near them, I felt it deserved the upgrade.

Obviously, if people strongly think it should be different, I'll change it, but until then it's staying :)

I see your logic there. Seeing "keter" and bracing for evil also creates misdirection, which may add to the impact when he turns out to be such a nice, sympathetic dude. Thinking about this thing ending up in, say, times square and chain-reaction filling everyone with cardboard (crying pitifully the whole time) is also a gross enough thought to make me feel like a bad person for enjoying it, which seems like what you were going for. Anyway, it's your skip, there's no canon, and this is an easy +1 either way.

For conversation's sake, though, I always thought Euclid objects could be immensely dangerous, just not on a scale that immediately threatens the world/existence. The hallmark of keter objects (to me) is that they will certainly end the world without intensive containment effort, as opposed to objects that could.

I'm just bringing that up academically, though, not saying you should change it. In this case there's good narrative reason for it to be classed the way it is, and that trumps everything else.

Feels a bit… hollow. A bit uninspired, like if you were taking taking the straightest route from point A ("keter-class humanoid with teleporting powers") to point B ("Tragic narrative that gives meaning to the SCP"). The writing is competent, but it feels like it's trying to emotionally manipulate me without properly investing me in it.

Funnily enough, the teleportation was added later in the brainstorming process as a means of a) allowing the containment breach, and b) stopping it from being just another humanoid, and adding another interesting factor to the anomaly. Seems it's backfired a bit :P

Just as a side note, is there anything I could do to it to alter your vote without significantly changing the narrative?

The writing is competent, but it feels like it's trying to emotionally manipulate me without properly investing me in it.

I feel similarly. The biggest offender is the interview, which is going a little too far in trying to invoke pathos…not only that, but it was a huge 'gimme', I knew where it was going to go prior to the ending, which had the effect of softening the blow of the discovery log. Between it's behavior and final addenda, I think it's clear enough what happenened; I'd suggest removing the interview in order to be more implicit and not so overbearing wrt feels.